Re: <> redirection and notations

[jeremy@sw.oz.au (Jeremy Fitzhardinge)]

peter%robots.ox.ac.uk@swift.sw.oz.au bubbles:
> I personally think there's no point in having more syntax for the new
> %openfile functionalities.  The es syntax would become too cluttered IMHO.

I agree.  "<>" seems like a feature of marginal use, but there seems
to be a number of people who want it for asthetic reasons.  However,
this doesn't mean that everything needs its own sugar.

With regard to the sh lookalike competition, is "<>" needed?  Ignoring
ksh and bash, how many /bin/sh like shells have "<>"?  Certainly /bin/sh
here doesn't on any of the machines I tried.

Also, I like "<>{...}" in its current role.

	J